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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
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